What is the amount a california resident can deduct on his tax return that works in a foreign country

[IRonMaN]

What are you looking to deduct?

[PATAX]

Wow what a question.... This is a forum for tax preparers, you are a tax preparer are you not?

[joshuabarksatlcs]

My mind reading told me @invst4u (a he) was asking how much of the foreign earned income on Form 2555 or 2555EZ would also be excluded on the CA return.

The answer is zero, zilch, nada, none or nothing...

On Form 540, the full amount on Form 2555 is added back to the Federal AGI.

[abctax55]

CA residents are taxed on their worldwide income, foreign (country or *foreign* state) income or not.

And I wasn't aware *tax returns* could actually "work" /S

[PATAX]

Good job Houdini...😀

[abctax55]

I thought Houdini was an escape artist ?

[IRonMaN]

I think he did pretty much anything for a buck.

[PATAX]

He had an extremely high IQ... He also debunked the so-called Spirit talkers and other so-called mediums that were prominent and popular in the country at that time, among all classes of people....

[joshuabarksatlcs]

This Houdini also do escaping - e.g. from the oops of calling Dawn a he....

[PATAX]

I won't try to understand what that means since I am a little naive and let that thing fly over my head👍

[IRonMaN]

It means his mind reading is pretty good but his interpreting of names needs a little work.

[abctax55]

@PATAX  Joshua called *Dawn* a 'he' on a different thread.  Thus raising serious doubt as to his actual mind reading skills 🤣 

[joshuabarksatlcs]

I think he did pretty much anything for a buck.

At first brush, I wasn't sure whether @IRonMaN  was talking about @invst4u @me or @Houdini.

Then, I read: He had an extremely high IQ... He also debunked the so-called Spirit talkers and other so-called mediums that were prominent and popular in the country at that time, among all classes of people....

and realized it could be about @invst4u, @Me or @Houdini....

So, I take a bow.

[PATAX]

Oh okay

[joshuabarksatlcs]

@PATAX , regarding I won't try to understand what that means since I am a little naive and let that thing fly over my head   

Not that it matters, but you'd totally get it if you go over the thread "How do I print a 1040X, the client died" 

I had a cracked tooth pulled (and bone grafted) this morning, the first step to a tooth implant (and the 6th step to getting old).  Thank you all for the distraction from my ache...  

[PATAX]

What a coincidence I just came back from the dentist 2... I swear he's putting the feelings in just so they last about a year and every year I have to go back for another filling that fell out... Good angle there

[PATAX]

Should be fillings not feelings... Trying to type here with this crazy German Shepherd pulling me..

[PATAX]

That happened to me a while back, when I called QB a he... Iron Man corrected me which I thank him for...

[IRonMaN]

Some folks have been around a long time so I know the he/she differences for them.  For other folks it's a  pure guess.  But with a name of Dawn, I was about 99.97571688147811799% sure we had a "she" instead of a "he" posting.  I left a little wiggle room just in case the guy that named his boy Sue had a second son named Dawn.

[PATAX]

Iron Man, I was just listening to him on the way down here to the lake... My gsd really likes the song Jackson...

[joshuabarksatlcs]

My apology to Dawn.

Perhaps I was simply RUI (reading under the influence) - influence of my dentists' filling (and his assistant's feelings).  I remember glancing over the name and it read "Dwan" to me and the image of the poker great flashed (online name durr, in case you want to look HIM up) which prompted me to call her a he. 

A bit sloppy on my part.  But then, it could just be that, still hunkering down and absent from Wynn and Aria for almost two years now, the poker bug was eating up my thoughts...

[PATAX]

👍RUI, that is a great one, I give you credit.... If you put my pop bottles on  when reading, I guarantee you will get lightheaded, and who knows you might be able to see the other side of  those poker cards...🤓🐕

[BobKamman]

Houdini also made the first airplane flight in Australia, in 1910.  He remained interested in aviation for a few years, attending the 1911 International Air Meet in Chicago, where he met Orville Wright, Glenn Curtiss, and Lincoln Beachey. (The famous aviators thought Houdini was Australian, and wanted to know all about “his country.”)

QB is ♀ ? I thought all quarterbacks were male. Except maybe that one from Wisconsin who behaves like a little girl around needles. In Mexico, by the way, American football quarterbacks are called “field marshals.”

[joshuabarksatlcs]

Since @BobKamman brought it up, I'd add that, at first glance, I thought QB was an it.  QuickBooks is female?

[sjrcpa]

I think (this thread is meandering) that QB refers to one of our frequent posters qbteachmt who is female.

[abctax55]

"....qbteachmt who is female."  Yeah, @PATAX  now knows.

I *wander* where the OP disappeared to? *Shirley* s/he is getting notifications of all this sillines.

This thread has a slight resemblance to the Troll Party 😊

[joshuabarksatlcs]

Perhaps I could straighten this (and the meandering) out a bit with my poetic skills.

Roses are red, violets are blue.

Dawn is a she, and Queue Bee's one, too.

Just had to try....

[BobKamman]

My trip to the dentist was yesterday.  I think it's something we all put off until after October 15.  And then soon enough, there will be these people coming to the office, telling us that we remind them of their own trips to the dentist.  

[BobKamman]

Image flashes to me of Earl Derr Biggers.  Everyone remembers Charlie Chan but few know that #2 Son also played Hop Sing in the Bonanza series -- and in real life, was wounded by the FBI as collateral damage when they were trying to stop an airplane hijacking.  

[PATAX]

👍 is there a Nobel Peace Prize for poetry?☝

[IRonMaN]

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/facts/